Damien

Apparently one of the reasons for 'African Americans' as a term is they don't know the original country their ancestors came from.

I find the hyphenated identity thing in America quite odd. People are 'Italian-American' or 'Irish-American' many generations after their predecessors immigrated to the point that I would feel the term is sort of useless?

Compare that with here were anyone 2nd generation onwards is usually 'British' even if they keep some identification/dual nationality with the country from which their parents or grandparents immigrated from.